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They got a few inches of rain in DeWitt County, Texas in early March 2014, so I headed down with my recording gear. One of my interests in this area is to record Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor and chrysoscelis) to see which species occur here.

I immediately came across one of my target species calling, the Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor). I don't have many good recordings of Hyla versicolor so I was glad to find some calling in a "recordable" location. These three frogs were calling from a group of trees probably near a pond off the side of the road.

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Later in the evening and just two miles to the SW of this location, I recorded the other species of Gray Treefrog, Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) calling next to a flooded ditch. It calls four times in this recording as a dry trill/rattle. You will also hear Southern Leopard Frogs (Lithobates sphenocephalus - the chuckling) and Strecker's Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris streckeri - the metallic tinking).

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In this second recording you can hear how much drier and more rattling the trill of the Cope's Gray Treefrog is.